Hans von Storch interviews Reiner Grundmann about his recent Climategate paper. It looks as though gatekeeping of inconvenient climate papers extends to some of the social science journals too:
One editor responsible for handling my manuscript was apologetic about the negative verdict, pointing out that the topic was too hot to handle for some referees in the field. He thought it was very difficult in the current situation to get such material published. I took this as a strong indication that the politicization of climate change had had an effect in STS scholarship, something which is not thematized sufficiently in the community.